Phonics Workshop TERMINOLOGY Phoneme Graphemes Segmenting and blending

Phonics Workshop

TERMINOLOGY Phoneme Graphemes Segmenting and blending Digraph Trigraph Split digraph Abbreviations

Phoneme – the smallest unit of sound in a word. Grapheme – the written form of a phoneme.

PROGRESSION THROUGH THE PHASES Phase 1 – Starts in settings and continues throughout Phase 2 – Starts in Reception (systematic teaching of phonics begins) Phase 3 – Reception teaching and learning Phase 4 – End of Reception/Beginning of Year 1 Phase 5 – Year 1 Phase 6 – Focus moves to spelling rules and patterns – Y 1 and into Y 2

PHASE 1 • Phase 1 activities are arranged into seven aspects • Central importance of developing speaking and listening skills • Relies on and complements a broad and rich language curriculum • Promotes the range and depth of children’s language experience • Develops phonological awareness skills • Introduces oral blending and segmenting

PHASE 1 • There are 7 aspects with 3 strands. • A 1 – Environmental • A 2 – Instrumental sounds • A 3 – Body Percussion • A 4 – Rhythm and rhyme • A 5 – Alliteration • A 6 – Voice sounds • A 7 – Oral blending and segmenting.

PHASE 2 • Set • Set 1: s, a, t, p 2: i, n, m, d 3: g, o, c, k 4: ck, e, u, r 5: h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss

PHASE 3 • Set 6: j, v, w, x • Set 7: y, z, zz, qu • Consonant digraphs: ch, sh, th, ng • Vowel digraphs: ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er

PHASE 3 GRAPHEMES AND WORDS CONTAINING THEM qu x j th z w y zz ch v sh shed jazz quiz chick

PHASE 4 • This phase consolidates all the children have learnt in the previous phases.

PHASE 5 • Children will be taught new graphemes and alternative pronunciations for these graphemes. • Vowel digraphs: wh, ph, ay, ou, ie, ea, oy, ir, ue, aw, ew, oe, au • Split digraphs: a_e, e_e, i_e, o_e, u_e

PHASE 6 • The focus is on learning spelling rules for suffixes. -s -es -ing -ed -er -est -y -en -ful -ly -ment -ness

SEGMENTING • Breaking down words for spelling. cat c a t

SEGMENTING Queen qu ee n

BLENDING Building words from phonemes to read. c a t

BLENDING Qu ee n queen

WHAT DOES A PHONICS LESSON LOOK LIKE? Revisit/review Flashcards to practice phonemes learnt so far. Teach new phoneme air Practice Buried treasure Air, zair, fair, hair, lair, pair, vair, sair, thair Read captions: The goat had a long beard. The quack was right in his ear. Apply

RESOURCES http: //www. phonicsplay. co. uk

YEAR 1 PHONICS TEST